Recipe Review For Foods Sake - Scented Shortbread Page 121

[shan_k]

Just made this shortbread as a small gift for a friend's birthday tonight. Decided to make the Crio Bru flavoured one.

I have never made real shortbread before so at first I thought the dough was really crumbly - not really a dough. To roll it into a sausage shape to then cut up proved a little challenging and I started to wonder if I had missed something out...BUT - it turned out so yummy....so I am assuming this is how shortbread dough is supposed to be!

The crio bru is a really subtle flavour - not at all overpowering or too sweet to have with a cuppa (we do have to admit to having a teaspoon each of the crio sugar you make before starting this....very yummy but naughty!).

The recipe said to cook for 12-15mins - we did it for 15 and they turned out beautifully, the kitchen smelt amazing too. Although they were made for a gift I think we will have to keep some for ourselves. I think we might have made them a bit smaller as we made just under 50 of them. Photos are below.

Cheers

[goldfish]

Wow shan_k!  These look fabulous!  Have the book now but haven't had a chance to try anything yet - but these will be at the top of the list!!  Thanks so much for the detailed review.   

[Cornish Cream]

What a lovely gift for your friend,I bet she will love them

[Plb16471]

I must just made mandarin scented shortbread, it definitely is crumbly dough.  I feared my home made sugar wasn't fine enough as it was quite visible in the dough, didn't effect the end result though.  I froze two rolls and cooked one, made 9 biscuits and the kids are eyeing them off.  Definitely a great recipe and a nice way to try new flavours of sugars, give mandarin a try..very subtle.

[Halex]

Made the rosemary lemon scented shortbread today. I used 1 sprig of rosemary in the sugar, next time might use a little more.

As usual made them larger, have 20 shortbreads.

I found these to be a little heavier than the edc shortbread.

H

[SuzieG]

Very crumbly.

Is the butter meant to be room temp?

I'm doing crio bru, they smell Devine, but haven't come out of the oven yet. Fingers crossed.

Suzanne

[SuzieG]

Out of the oven! Taste is great, not too sweet. Success!

[asha_76]

Made the Crio Bru version of these yesterday.  I found the mix to be very crumbly and had real trouble bringing it all together and trying to roll it into nice neat sausage shapes.  Didn't help that I was in a hurry!  Anyway in the end I was able to get them into enough of a log shape to slice and cook and they tasted great although didn't look quite as nice as I'd hoped.  Surprisingly they are not too sweet either.  I would definitely try this one again but might try with room temperature butter next time and see if that makes a difference.

[VieveMS]

Did the Rosemary and Lemon version of these.  I should have read the reviews before making them as, like Hally, I should have put a bit more rosemary in the mixture as it is a very subtle flavour.  I didn't find the mixture crumbly at all - in fact I found it quite an easy dough to work with.

[Aussie Brenda]

I've made these, rolled them in Lime zest sugar, they turned out beautiful.

[VieveMS]

I made these for christmas and although I thought they were OK they didn't receive rave reviews compared to the family shortbread recipe.  No one rushed back for seconds....

[Greyhoundmum]

I made these with the orange scented sugar, very crumbly but kneaded it and used cookie cutters in xmas shapes. Havnt tried EDC shortbread so cannot compare. Made about 36pieces.

[KarenH]

Like others, I found this dough very difficult to work with, and I much prefer the texture of the "red and green christmas shortbread" in Festive Flavours cookbook - maybe it is the extra butter in the recipe?.  However,  I LOVE the idea of the different scented sugars, and I think that in future I will make the scented sugars and use them in the festive flavours recipe, leaving out the fruit and nuts in that recipe.